Example sentences of "because it is base [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Reflecting on the same contrast , Carol McMillan refers to Hegel 's view of the family as an inferior organisation to the state because it is based on love .
2 ( Ruby does not need FDA clearance because it is based on products that occur naturally . )
3 However , by focusing exclusively on girls , researchers have ignored the important premise that gender has any cultural meaning only because it is based on difference ( Hollway 1982 ) .
4 Most deaf people are still educated within a system which has at its base a language that is , at best , not fully accessible because it is based on hearing ; at worst , it is a language which is completely alien and does not adequately describe deaf experience .
5 All discourse is more or less reciprocal , if only because it is based upon assumptions about receivers .
6 His life of action is surely contrasted with the contemplative life of the shepherd and poet , who realize that Man 's past and present state ( 'what we are , and have been' ) is doomed , because it is based upon cruelty and the confining of imagination — surely this is the Cup of Stone , almost a Cap of Stone , laid upon ‘ the living well ’ .
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